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<p><h2>THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE (CH. 12 : 32-64)</h2>
  
<SUP class="vnum">32</SUP> “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure
  to give you the kingdom.
<SUP class="vnum">33</SUP> Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags
  which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail,
  where no thief approaches nor moth destroys.
  <SUP class="vnum">34</SUP> For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
<SUP class="vnum">35</SUP> “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;
<SUP class="vnum">36</SUP> and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will
  return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open
  to him immediately.
<SUP class="vnum">37</SUP> Blessed are those servants whom the master,
  when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he
  will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and
  serve them.
<SUP class="vnum">38</SUP> And if he should come in the second watch, or come in
  the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
<SUP class="vnum">39</SUP> But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour
  the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his
  house to be broken into.
<SUP class="vnum">40</SUP> Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 
<SUP class="vnum">41</SUP> Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?” 
<SUP class="vnum">42</SUP> And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward,
  whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them
  their portion of food in due season?
<SUP class="vnum">43</SUP> Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
<SUP class="vnum">44</SUP> Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.
<SUP class="vnum">45</SUP> But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and
  begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink
  and be drunk,
<SUP class="vnum">46</SUP> the master of that servant will come on a day when
  he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and
will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

<p>Glory to God forever. <b>Amen</b>.

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